Building sites all over Britain will never look the same again. The last of the open-weave string vests beloved of labourers, Rab C Nesbitt and Ricky Tomlinson of the Royle Family are about to vanish.

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The traditional undergarment of choice for builders has been consigned to the laundry basket of history The string vest, once a common sight on building sites, is set to become a thing of the past as ...

National Archives have revealed the army tested an array of string vests to help soldiers in the heat of Suez. National Archives have revealed the army tested an array of string vests to help soldiers ...

Drugs, junkies and jiggling nipples in a string vest. Hannah and the gang reach new lows (the string vest in particular) this week, says Sophia Money-Coutts Dear oh dear, Hannah Horvath, we plunged to ...

The string vest's reputation as the least sexy and most annoying of garments is undeserved – it really is an undercover war hero. A Ministry of Supply study from 1956, among documents just released by ...

AS the UK's global prestige faced peril in the weeks leading up to the Suez Crisis, one Government department pinned its hopes for success in Egypt on a very British secret weapon - the string vest.

A fresh crisis in the Tony Blair leadership broke on Wednesday with the revelation that the PM was wearing what appeared to be a vest beneath his shirt for an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today ...